When my grandmother died from a mucosal melanoma (a form of skin cancer) in 2015, I sat around with my […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news A history of Pyrex. The midwestern history revival. Shoes […]
Finding My Amputee Brethren
I remember vividly the first amputee I met after my amputation. Driving down with my spouse to Wake Forest from […]
Option Whatever: The Corporatization of Grief in Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B
Two years ago, my husband Clayton was murdered. That summer, I wrote a lot in my journal. I felt angry […]
The “Right” and “Wrong” Kind of Addict: Iatrogenic Opioid Addiction in Historical Context
Last year, Kelly McEvers of NPR’s Embedded podcast introduced us to Joy. Something about Joy seems so ordinary, even familiar. […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news The need for a new bioethics. Enjoy this lovely […]
Handmaids, Hospitals, and The Pageantry of the Newborn Nursery Window
Sixteen minutes into the second episode of Hulu’s new Handmaid’s Tale, Offred (Elizabeth Moss), having recently given birth to her […]
Was the Founding Generation Right to Worry?
On February 13, 2017, thirty-five physicians signed a letter to the New York Times that stated: “We believe that the […]
Sunday Morning Medicine
A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news Live alone like it’s 1936. The architecture of an […]
A Quiet Inquisition
When Delma Rosa Gómez was 27 years old, she was diagnosed with advanced stages of metastatic cancer. When she told […]
